Moroccan Party Condemns Algerian Media Attacks During Africa Cup of Nations

The Secretary General of the Popular Movement (MP) party, Mohamed Ouzzine, condemns the attacks by Algerian media against the personalities and governing bodies of Moroccan football during the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) in Côte d’Ivoire. In a letter addressed to the President of the Union of Arab Broadcasters (ASBU), he denounces: "various insults and descriptions have been addressed to Morocco, such as describing it as ’a policy of hyenas hiding under the appearance of lions’, and ’the intervention of the Makhzen in the refereeing in Africa’, in addition to inciting African public opinion against the President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, which has become a chronic chronicle for the Algerian media".

The political leader deplores: "this situation would have been acceptable, although reluctant, if it had been limited to publications on social networks, which are the result of a drift of certain parties in Algeria to consecrate the hostility between the Moroccan and Algerian brotherly peoples on the background of an artificial political conflict. But that the situation reaches this degree through the use of official radios and televisions, this is unacceptable and inadmissible in any form whatsoever." Ouzzine calls for "opposing it to curb the spread of the seeds of division and hostility between the two brotherly peoples".

He requests that the executive office for urgent affairs, responsible for finding appropriate solutions to the urgent problems facing the Union, look into his complaint.